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Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance, edited by Yutian Wong

Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance, edited by Yutian Wong Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016, 280 pp, $45.00 cloth (isbn: 9780299308704), 9 b&w photographs.Image courtesy of University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.The tumultuous events of the 1960s American civil rights movement gave rise to Asian American theatre, a performative practice that asserted Asian American identity and space; Asian American theatre has since generated a legacy that continues to impact discourses on the Asian body particularly in the field of performance studies. However, a seismic shift has recently taken place in performance studies; traditional paradigms that have long posited the Asian body on the American stage are being challenged by twenty-first century perspectives that consider dance performances of transnational Asian identities across diasporic spaces. In no other domain is this shift more visible than in the related field of critical dance studies where the emerging area of Asian American dance studies is occupying the vanguard of global developments in discourses of the Asian body.Dance scholar Yutian Wong’s much anticipated publication, Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance, marks the beginning of a new era in critical dance/performance studies scholarship. Wong brings together seven voices from across multiple fields concerned with dance and Asian representation, insisting that the collection of essays should http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas Brill

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016, 280 pp, $45.00 cloth (isbn: 9780299308704), 9 b&w photographs.Image courtesy of University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.The tumultuous events of the 1960s American civil rights movement gave rise to Asian American theatre, a performative practice that asserted Asian American identity and space; Asian American theatre has since generated a legacy that continues to impact discourses on the Asian body particularly in the field of performance studies. However, a seismic shift has recently taken place in performance studies; traditional paradigms that have long posited the Asian body on the American stage are being challenged by twenty-first century perspectives that consider dance performances of transnational Asian identities across diasporic spaces. In no other domain is this shift more visible than in the related field of critical dance studies where the emerging area of Asian American dance studies is occupying the vanguard of global developments in discourses of the Asian body.Dance scholar Yutian Wong’s much anticipated publication, Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance, marks the beginning of a new era in critical dance/performance studies scholarship. Wong brings together seven voices from across multiple fields concerned with dance and Asian representation, insisting that the collection of essays should

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Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas – Brill

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